Daniel Wiffen headlines day four with a gold medal chance in the 800m freestyle
Siobhan Haughey, grandniece of Charlie, goes out again in the 100m freestyle semi-finals. She wins it and will have a strong lane for the final.“I couldn’t do it without my family, I wasn’t alone out there! I was looking for Finke all the time, I was looking over at Bobby Finke that whole time but I was not losing last 50 metres, I’ve been practising for that all year. I was looking over and over and then I saw and I’ve won.
Earlier, Michaela Corcoran finished 21st in the women’s slalom C1, clocking 129.55 in the first run and 168.08 in the second.Another point for Stadelmann and she wins 21-15. Darragh beaten unfortunately. Had a great opportunity there but just slipped away.Darragh takes an 8-5 lead, but again is pegged back to 8-7. But stays ahead 9-7 with some good play.Neck and neck again, 21-21. Fantastic rally and Darragh hits a high lob and just sneaks in. 22-21.
“I’ve been very emotional over the last few days, sometimes nervous, sometimes overwhelmed but I’ve reminded myself that I’m so lucky to have such an incredible horse and such an incredible team around me. Everything went according to plan, maybe with the slight exception being the halt, but the main content of the test, I was delighted with.”Belfast’s Philip Doyle and Clonmel’s Daire Lynch are through to the final of the Men’s Double after an impressive showing in their semi-final this morning.
Afterwards a disappointed Bergin said: “We’ve been preparing for a long time for this and we were just taking every race as it comes so yeah we’re disappointed but we’ll just look forward to the next race now. We’ll re-assess later, sit down and look at the race and make a news strategy for the next day.”
“It was just an incredible experience overall to come out to such a huge crowd. I’ve never fought before as many people before in my life and in such an amazing venue. To hear so much support coming from the crowd was just incredible and I’ll be forever grateful for that experience alone.
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